Marjory is a female given name, a variant spelling of
Margery or
Marjorie
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret (name), Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery (name), Margery, Marjory or Margaery. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjor ...
. It is sometimes shortened to
Marj
Marj (, , "The Meadows"), El Merj in Benghazi and Egyptian Arabic, is a city in northeastern Libya and the administrative seat of the Marj District. It lies in an upland valley separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a range of hills, part of th ...
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Notable people with the name include:
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Marjory Allen, Baroness Allen of Hurtwood
Marjory Allen, Baroness Allen of Hurtwood, (née Gill; 10 May 1897 – 11 April 1976), known to her friends as Joan, was an English landscape architect and promoter of child welfare.
Early life and education
Marjory Gill was born in Bex ...
(1897–1976), English landscape architect and promoter of child welfare
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Marjery Bryce (1891–1973), British suffragette and actor
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Marjory Cobbe, English midwife granted a pension in 1469 for attending the wife of King Edward IV
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for d ...
(1890–1998), American journalist, writer, feminist and environmentalist
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Marjory Gengler
Marjory Logan Gengler Smith (born May 3, 1951) is an American retired tennis player. In 1973, while a student at Princeton University, she was captain of the women's tennis team and led them to an undefeated season in 1972. She was the top ranke ...
(born 1951), American tennis player
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Marjory Gordon Marjory Gordon (Cleveland, November 10, 1931 – Massachusetts, April 29, 2015) was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first presid ...
(1931–2015), emeritus professor of nursing at Boston College
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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1 October 1857 – 22 November 1930) was a Scottish singer, composer and music teacher and supporter of women's suffrage and pacifism. According to Ray Perman, Kennedy-Fraser "made a career of collecting Scottish Gaelic ...
(1857–1930), Scottish singer, composer and arranger
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Marjory LeBreton
Marjory LeBreton (born July 4, 1940) is a Canadian former leader of the Government in the Senate of Canada; a member of the Canadian cabinet; and past national chair of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Canada. She worked with four leaders of t ...
(born 1940), leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate
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Marjory Mecklenburg (born 1935), American government administrator and activist opposed to legal abortion
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Marjory Mills (1896–1987), New Zealand embroiderer and businesswoman
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Marjory Newbold
Marjory Newbold (25 May 1883 – 15 November 1926) was a leading Scottish socialist and communist, prominent in the Independent Labour Party and in the 'Red Clydeside' movement demanding reforms for the working class. Newbold organised pacifist a ...
(1883–1926), Scottish socialist and communist
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Marjory Saunders (1913–2010), Canadian archer
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Marjory Shedd (1926–2008), Canadian badminton player
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Marjory Stephenson
Marjory Stephenson (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale.
She wrote ''Bacterial Metabolism'' (1930 ...
(1885–1948), British biochemist
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Marjory Wardrop
Marjory Scott Wardrop (11 November 1869 – 7 December 1909) was an English scholar and translator of Georgia (country), Georgian literature. She was a sister of the United Kingdom, British diplomat and scholar of Georgia, Oliver Wardrop, Sir Ol ...
(1869–1909), English scholar and translator of Georgian literature
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